The White House's overhaul of the US tax code may begin in 'late spring'

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DUBLIN (Reuters) - President Donald Trump may begin his overhaul
of the U.S. tax code as early as late spring, White House
spokesman Sean Spicer has told Ireland's Sunday Independent
newspaper.

"We are going to have tax reform after we get healthcare
completed... I think we are looking at late spring to summer,"
Spicer told the newspaper in an interview during Irish Prime
Minister Enda Kenny's visit to Washington late last week.

Trump has vowed to deliver major tax cuts to the middle-class and
the business community this year but deepening Republican
divisions over a House Republican healthcare bill which has
spawned concern that action on tax reform may be delayed.

In a survey released last week, only 16 percent of about 1,000
business, tax and financial executives polled by accounting and
advisory firm KPMG said they expected to see tax reform in 2017.